Tuesday, November 14, 2006

not done!

Okay, scrounging the specimins was TOTALLY worth it. People were actually interested (or at least a reasonable simulacrum) in class today. They actually had stuff to say. I suppose it could be that animals are just inherently more interesting to people than population growth. Or it could have been the specimins. Or it could have been that last week's bad class was a fluke and there were a lot of sicky people in the class who didn't look sick but needed to leave anyway. Or whatever.

Or maybe today was the fluke, but I'm going to be optimistic and say that las week was.

This of course inspires me to go and find more stuff for the class later this week - I'm going to see if we still have that big old tapeworm in a jar we used to have. And maybe I'll steal some of the leftover clams and sea stars from the class that dissects them and bring them in.

See? Classes are a two-way street. Reward me with respect and attention and I reward you with more fun stuff.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The problem with todays students,
as yesterdays is the educational
system. It needs to be re-named
the child management system. Dumbed
down, indoctrinated never allowing
maturity and expectations of life
long entertainment. With big
government as their mama's teat
all of their lives.
Celebrate when you find the exception in your class,as they've
successfully escaped the indoctrination.
From Apples to Oranges
Smarty Jones